Frankly, only weirdos 'worry' about falling fertility rates as a hobby.

1) The guy who created the Ring is not a good person 2) Unless Sam/Greg/OpenAI are Frodo in this analogy. In which case...they will try and destroy the Ring? 3) Does this guy know how LOTR ends 4) Sauron's main backer is...Morgoth? Is this guy Morgoth

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Love this attempt at injecting some Indian masculinity into proceedings (South Asian dudes love holding hands)

Raspberry Pi, much-loved maker of affordable computers, saw a surprising share rally this week thanks to OpenClaw, the viral AI agent people are deploying on Raspberry Pi devices. CEO Eben Upton is into it, he told BBG. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI grandees discover IST (Indian Stretchable Time) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There have been almost zero consequences for the men closely linked to Epstein but finally Bill Gates shows an atom of self-awareness by not doing a plush speaking gig. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Saudi-backed AI company Humain invests $3B in xAI, becoming a "significant minority shareholder" in a deal that happened just prior to SpaceX's xAI acquisition (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

At India's AI Summit, Sundar Pichai announces the America-India Connect Initiative to build new fiber optic lines between India, the US, and other countries (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I have finally got around to reading the Martin Wolf piece on birth rates (flagged by my husband, a v involved dad who knows I have strong views) and it's good. Although I also think people just...don't want that many kids. It's hard work! www.ft.com/content/e1a7...

Ars Technica pulled a story after finding quotes fabricated by AI, which is obviously horrendous, but some commendable transparency by the reporter here. I'll just add that many reporters across many news organisations are being strongly encouraged *by management* to experiment with AI tools.

NEW in my newsletter FOIA Files: A document I found in the Epstein files explains the FBI’s justifications for redactions in the massive trove while bureau personnel were reviewing the documents between February and May 2025 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Mark Zuckerberg doing masculine energy by enabling creeps, incels and stalkers with the Ray-Ban glasses

It is in fact a great time politically for middle-aged men to be talking about young girls and their reproductive capabilities.

There is a lot to find darkly comic in the Epstein files. What struck me in this @oliviasolon.bsky.social piece was the way he accesses the top intellectual echelons, pioneers in AI, physics. Yet spends so much time grubbing around with "SEO experts" and grifters. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Puck: “Why Goldman is Sticking With Kathy” *several hours pass* Ruemmler tells the FT she is resigning from Goldman because the media attention on her ties to Epstein has become as “distraction”: as.ft.com/r/f9dbadbd-4...

It feels important to point out that Jim Ratcliffe looks like a shoe.

OpenAI fired one of its top safety execs, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI erotica in its ChatGPT product. OpenAI told her the term was related to her sexual discrimination against a male colleague. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The blunt truth is that if Karen Pierce had been a man, then she would still be US ambassador now and Keir Starmer's government would not be on the brink of death.

Canadian Province New Brunswick to Quit Using Elon Musk’s X, Leader Says

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Every conviction you have about how power works is proven out in the Epstein files. Yup, you're discriminated against because you're a woman/POC. Yup, powerful men hold conversations that exclude you. Yup, they try and benefit each other socially and financially. Yup, they gaslight you.

I refuse to care about Moltbook.

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

If you’ve not seen it, v good piece by top colleague @matthewweaver.bsky.social on the suburban Ulez camera bomber, the online radicalisation of older people and the sheer toxicity of “war on the motorist” and anti-Sadiq Khan discourse. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

every epstein commentary is these immensely rich/powerful/influential people raving about what a genius epstein was, and every one of his emails is just “helo, my name jomfrie”

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There is a weird thing (by men) on Reddit at the moment to call Sydney Sweeney and Margot Robbie unattractive. Which, IDK guys. You must think everyone else looks like a brick

*ALL 13 SERIES OF POIROT ARE ON NETFLIX*

One from the Seb Payne school of political management.

The trouble with technology is men.

Booting up Substack TV to watch a six-hour documentary on race science

Terminal says welcome

Peace in Gaza - Israel killed three journalists there yesterday, plus two children and six other people

It's going about as well as you think

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is a blunder with "incredible national security implications", calling it a "big mistake" and "crazy" (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Portugal orders Polymarket to stop operations and blocks it in the country after heavy activity tied to its recent presidential election, with €110M+ in volume (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

There is a huge split in my various feeds. Technical people on here argue against a social media ban. Every parent on LinkedIn and WhatsApp is saying bannnnn it. I suspect the parents may win out.

Nick Timothy? Hahahaha

Remember when everyone was outraged he was invited to Web Summit.

Robert Jenrick: an apology. thecritic.co.uk/fran...

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

Things Brits famously do not like: pedos, people who hurt cats, dogs or trees, littering.

The BBC signaled some of its defenses against President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit, telling a judge that the documentary at the center of the case was fair despite a misleading edit of one segment.

I seem to be one of the few tech journalists who is inverting the social media ban question by wondering: what's the harm of banning it? Do the harms of a ban outweigh the positives? (Most of the current takes are - there is no evidence to ban it)

"I don't need Grok out here putting my toddler in a bikini" - r/NewParents discussing not posting pics of their kids to social media.

!!! Night manager !!!

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

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